A Christian charity leader has been given the first lockdown related compensation award from Dorset police after being manhandled and unlawfully prevented from preaching on the back of his truck.
Responding to the settlement, Dominic who was supported by the Christian Legal Centre, said: “It was intimidating and humiliating to be confronted by the police in this way and treated as a potential criminal.
“I have no doubt that if I had continued to preach or sing, I would have been handcuffed, arrested and taken to the police station. “During the pandemic I have honoured social distancing, but I also have a legitimate job to do, which is to preach the gospel.
“For centuries, street preaching in the UK was an honoured profession that was respected and deemed essential to people’s physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.“To be shut down by the police like this represented a huge shift for me and shows the extent of society’s secularisation.
“My hope going forward is that there would be a respect accorded to Christian ministers and charities that seek to bring hope to those in desperate situations whose greatest need is their spiritual need.”
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